Well friend welcome back to Java with Julie. I'm Julie Slattery and this

podcast is listener supported and an outreach of authentic intimacy. When you

think about singleness what comes to your mind? Are the feelings around it a

overwhelmingly positive negative or neutral? Is singleness something you think

that is celebrated or do you think it's more questioned in the church? As we

continue our seven week series on different themes around God's sex and

intimacy this week we're going to be looking at singleness and how it's

thought about talked about and walked out among Christians. While our church

culture around singleness hopefully seems to be shifting a little there's

still a lot of work to be done to disentangle cultural perceptions from what the

Bible says about singleness and that's why I'm excited that my guest today

Dr. Danny Treweek has written a book called The Meaning of Singleness. It's

really all about developing a solid practical theology of singleness.

Now Danny is brilliant she's a great writer she's also the founding

director of the single-minded ministry which is a peer church ministry whose

mission is to develop biblical theological and pastoral resources exploring

God's purpose for singleness. Danny's research and ministry reveal the high

calling of single Christians. Now whether you're single or married I promise

you this conversation is going to challenge you and let me give you a little

bit of a heads up while today's conversation is going to help you think

rightly about singleness. Our bonus episode this week is going to get really

practical exploring what it looks like to steward your sexuality as a single

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